Source Quotes - page 8

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information. (Kenneth Boulding)
You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop. View quote
Sarah Dessen
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. View quote
Arthur Machen
Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization. View quote
Hyman G. Rickover
The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
... the value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income. View quote
Bill Mollison
By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress. View quote
Anton Chekhov
To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure? View quote
Jeremy Bentham
A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without necessarily intending them to be the prototype for serial production. As a result, there became available a body of knowledge about what would work and what would not work. View quote
Maurice Wilkes
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. View quote
Neil Young
We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature." (Lewis M. Branscomb)
Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source... To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide. View quote
Ward Churchill
Anyone who criticizes me for talking about fair trade is really a few pebbles short of a beach, because everybody should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment: because we all live here. MTV, 2005. source. View quote
Chris Martin
Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East. View quote
David Horowitz
Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal. View quote
Sophocles
Change is the nature of God's mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain. View quote
Craig Ferguson
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. View quote
Rohinton Mistry
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks. View quote
Tony Snow
I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner. View quote
Richard Stallman
Men must always have distinguished (e. g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters-the first things and the right way-the only source of knowledge was hearsay. (Leo Strauss)
Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery. View quote
Jaggi Vasudev
The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed. View quote
Winston Churchill
There is no possible source of evil except good. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time.... the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought. View quote
Ludwig Boltzmann